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Magnificent Antique "Lazo" Gold Earrings with Emeralds, Spain c. 1760


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Magnificent Antique "Lazo" Gold Earrings with Emeralds, Spain c. 1760
Magnificent Antique "Lazo" Gold Earrings with Emeralds, Spain c. 1760
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The history of jewellery on the Iberian Peninsula has gone its own way in many respects. One reason for this was that both Spain and Portugal, through their colonies in South America, already possessed far more precious colored stones than other European countries in the 18th century. As a result, the jewellery from these countries is often richer and more colorful than jewellery from Germany, for example. This pair of earrings dates from around 1760 and is made of high-carat gold and richly set with emeralds from Colombia. The design is in three parts, typical of the period: They consist of an upper part with fine tendrils around a spherical center, then a characteristic intermediate link called, lazo, loop, and a suspended lower part that is symmetrical to the upper part. A few examples of earrings of this type have survived. The Metropolitan Museum in New York owns a very comparable pair, see here, another is illustrated in Ginny Reddington Dawes / Olivia Collings: Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830, Woodbridge 2007, p. 109 and in Daniela Mascetti/Amanda Triossi: Earrings. From Antiquity to the Present, London 1990, p. 55. A painting of Doña María de la Luz Padilla, painted around 1760, see here, which is kept in the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, shows just how common this type of earring was: the sitter belonged to the nobility of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and lived in Mexico City. She combines her earrings, very similar to the ones shown here, with some fashionable beauty spots and an elegant wig. The present pair is unusually finely crafted. The original hinged hoops have been replaced by ear screws in more recent times. Our goldsmiths can also attach ear studs here if desired. We discovered the pair as it is in Munich.
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Magnificent Antique "Lazo" Gold Earrings with Emeralds, Spain c. 1760
The Golden Age
€ 3,980.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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